Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues I
Use of restraints include where to and not to secure the device.
What is onto the bed frame and not to the bed rail?
Having the authority to make decisions and the freedom to act in accordance with one's professional knowledge base.
What is automony?
Carrying out nursing responsibilities in a manner consistent with quality in nursing care and moral principles that dictate how a person will conduct themselves.
What the professional nursing code of ethics?
Maintaining privacy
What is confidentiality?
The proper method for identifying patients.
What is using two identifies?
Washing the area gently with soap and water prior to medication application.
What is skin preparation for topical ointment administration?
A threat of harm that causes fear of physical hurt in a victim.
What is assault?
The ethical principle that addresses the idea that a nurse's actions should promote good.
What is beneficence?
the practice of promoting patient rights, preserving human dignity, providing freedom from suffering, making improvements in the healthcare industry, and portraying a positive image of the nursing community
What is advocacy?
What is HIPPA?
Dosage calculation desired over have formula
What is D/HXQ
(Read the problems carefully!! Answer what the question is asking)
Creams or suppositories inserted with a plastic applicator like inserting a tampon.
What is vaginal application of medication.
The cause of any physical injury to a person.
What is battery?
To do no harm
What is non-maleficence?
This means that nurses are instructed on what roles they are to perform, what they should be in charge of, and who they should report to.
What is responsibility?
When a patient refuses this type of medication, you must do this.
What is have a witness to waste.
Use this type of syringe when less than 5ml of liquid med, an unusual dose or, can't be measured in a medicine cup.
What is an oral syringe?
Gentle pressure over the lacrimal duct
Don't blot the drops
Don't le the dropper touch the organ
Wash hands before and after
What is instilling eye drops?
The making of false and malicious statements about a person in some type of print or writing.
What is libel?
Being impartial and fair.
What is justice?
Taking responsibility for one's nursing judgments, actions, and omissions as they relate to life-long learning, maintaining competency, and upholding both quality patient care outcomes and standards of the profession while being answerable to those who are influenced by one's nursing practice.
What is accountability?
Nursing students cannot and should not be responsible for or asked to witness this legal document.
What is consent?
The process of adding a diluent to a dry ingredient to make it a liquid.
What is reconstitution? (Follow the directions on the label).
Press or massage the tragus.
Straightening the canal by pulling the auricle down and back for children under 3 or upward and outward for children 3 years and older and adults.
What is instilling ear drops?
The failure to exercise the degree of care expected of a person.
What is negligence?
A failure to exercise an ordinary degree of professional skill or learning by rendering professional services which results in injury, loss, or damage
What is malpractice?
Remaining true to the professional promises made to provide quality, competent care to their patients.
What is fidelity?
An inert or innocuous substance used in controlled clinical trials to test the effectiveness of treatment. This effect is a way for your brain to tell the body what it needs to feel better.
What is placebo?
What is giving meds through an enteral tube (NG, Peg, G-tube)
Always use a filter needle to aspirate medication from this device.
What is a glass ampule?